Author: Alumni Staff

Famous jazz pianist Jon Mayer, not to be confused with pop singer John Mayer, led a class and played alongside students at PCC on April 30. “It was just crazy that it was actually happening. He is such a big name,” said Joel Zobrist who accompanied Mayer on drums during his visit.

The road winds over bends and curves as hours trickle out the window of the car. It’s a family vacation and the people weighing down the seats are eagerly waiting to stretch their legs and breathe in their destination.To Noah Sheets, a 20-year-old undeclared major, the journey is but a peripheral blur.

PCC badminton’s top player, Priscilla Lun, will be absent from the California Community College Athletic Association’s State Individual Championships on Friday at Irvine Valley College, due to a prior obligation with the US Olympic Development program.Lun will be in Boston playing in the Wilson MIT Boston Open, which is sponsored by USA Badminton.

Three hits are all that did it. Three small hits that, if measured out end to end, would barely stretch from home to first base. Yet for the Lancer baseball team, three small hits was just another instance where they were unable to patch the leak as they watched one game, and one season, become awash in bitter frustration and unyielding disbelief.

The premier outside hitter for the PCC volleyball team for the past two seasons, Ashley Marshman, will transfer to Cal Poly Pomona after signing a letter of intent on Thursday. The team’s setter, Vanessa Amran, is accepting a scholarship to play at Whittier College next season.

The PCC track and field team, with an all-freshman roster, had to run its best times of the season May 2 at the Southern California Preliminaries in order to advance to Saturday’s Finals.

The conclusion of each spring semester at PCC marks the beginning of a new era for the Associated Students. Sixty students had already acquired candidacy applications as of Wednesday, which Assistant Dean for Student Affairs Scott Thayer finds to be very encouraging at this stage in the process.

With a rotting scoreboard, fence penetrating undergrowth, and discarded aging rubbish waiting to welcoming any visitors, Robinson Field, named in honor of former PCC athlete and Major League Baseball legend Jackie Robinson, is no field of dreams. In its current condition, those who make their way to the PCC baseball team’s home park would be more likely to call it a field of nightmares.

Through a long-winded weeklong bombardment of emails, members of the Associated Students and Seeds of Change environmental club challenged one another leading to Thursday’s joint Board Of Trustees/AS meeting.

PCC police allegedly discovered a loaded .22-caliber semiautomatic pistol inside the car of a man allegedly under the influence of marijuana in parking Lot 3 on Thursday.